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ERIC Number: ED608526
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Oct
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When Information Is Not Enough: Evidence from a Centralized School Choice System. Working Paper 27887
Ajayi, Kehinde F.; Friedman, Willa H.; Lucas, Adrienne M.
National Bureau of Economic Research
Students often make school choice decisions with inadequate information. We present results from delivering information to randomly selected students (and some randomly selected parents) across 900 junior high schools in Ghana, a country with universal secondary school choice. We provided guidance on application strategies and reported the selectivity and exit exam performance of secondary schools, information students and parents prioritized. We find that despite information changing the characteristics of schools to which students applied and students gaining admission to higher value-added schools, they were not more likely to matriculate on time or at all. Information was not the only constraint. [Funding is provided by the Post-Primary Education Initiative of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), the Weiss Family Program Fund, and University of Delaware Institute for Global Studies' Global Exchange Program.]
National Bureau of Economic Research. 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-5398. Tel: 617-588-0343; Web site: http://www.nber.org
Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: National Bureau of Economic Research
Identifiers - Location: Ghana
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